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Balancing the Risks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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Commentary on an Encyclical
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1963

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References

1 See, for example. John Courtney Murray, S.J., in Foreign Policy and the Free Society, (New York: Fund for the Republic, 1958).

2 See the instructive introduction and carefully selected and annotated excerpts from, the writings and speeches of those who have developed this broad consensus, including President John F. Kennedy, in the symposium edited by Ernest W. Lefever. Arms and Arms Control, (New York: Praeger, 1968).

3 See James E. Dougherty, "The Political Context," in William J. Nagle, ed., Morality and Modern Warfare, (Baltimore: Helicon, 1900). pp. 13, 17.

4 See Thomas C. Scheming & Morton H, Halperin, Strategy and Arms Control, (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1961); Donald G. Brennan, ed., Arms Control, Disarmament and National Security, (New York: Braiiller, 1961); Hedley Bull, The Control Of the Arms' Race, (New York: Praeger, 1961).

5 See John Courtney Murray, S.J., "Theology and Modern War," in Nagle, op. cit., pp. C3-91; Thomas E. Murray, Nuclear Policy for War and Peace, (Cleveland: World Publishing Co.. 1960); Paiif Ramsey, War and the Christian Conscience: How Shall Modern War Be Conducted Justly, (Durham. N.C.: Duke University Press. 1961).

6 For example. Dean John C. Bennett emphasized this line of thinking in his papers for the Second Georgetown Conference on Christian Political and Social Thought, July, 1961 and for the Annual Conference of the Catholic Association for International Peace, October, 1961. See John C. Bennett, "Moral Urgencies in the Nuclear Context," in John C. Bennet, cd., Nuclear Weapons and the Conflict of Conscience, (New York: Scribner's, 1962), pp. 80, 113. 116.

7 "Justice, then, right reason and humanity urgently demand that the arms race should cease. That the stockpiles which exist in various countries should be reduced equally and simultaneously by the parties concerned. That nuclear weapons should be banned, And that a general agreement should eventually be reached about progressive disarmament and an effective method of control [emphasis added]. N. B. This and all other quotation) from Pacem in Terris are taken from the text published by the New York Times, International Edition, April 12. 1963.